Kamilah Aisha Moon
Phone: 404.471.6895
Email: kmoon@agnesscott.edu
Office Location: Buttrick 323
Academic Degrees
- B.A., Paine College
- M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Kamilah Moon is a Pushcart Prize winning poet, and a Lambda award finalist. She has taught poetry at Rutgers University, Medgar Evers College (CUNY, Brooklyn), Adelphi University, and Drew University.
Professional Activities
Poetry Collection:
- Starshine and Clay, Four Way Books, 2017
- She Has a Name, Four Way Books, 2013
Creative Non-fiction Chapbook:
- On Nascency, The Center for Faith and Work, 2015.
Kamilah Aisha Moon is a Pushcart Prize winner, a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award, Audre Lorde Award from the Publishing Triangle and Lambda Award, and a 2015 New American Poet who has received fellowships to Vermont Studio Center, Rose O'Neill Literary House, Hedgebrook, and Cave Canem. The author of Starshine & Clay (2017) and She Has a Name (2013), both published by Four Way Books, her work has been featured widely, including the Harvard Review, Poem A Day, Prairie Schooner, Boston Review, Oxford American and elsewhere. Moon holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is an Assistant Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.